Peru’s Health Ministry is urging people to stay away from Pacific beaches from Lima northward after recent large-scale deaths of pelicans and dolphins.

Leftist military man Ollanta Humala declared victory after unofficial results showed him narrowly winning a bitterly contested Peruvian presidential run-off against the daughter of disgraced former President Alberto Fujimori.

Riot police fired tear gas to keep protesters away from Peru’s Congress as thousands marched to back Amazon Indians who want logging laws that they say threaten their lands overturned.

Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori faces a possible seven-year sentence today in a separate trial on abuse of authority charges, a day after erupting in anger during one of the hearings.

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori will go on trial tomorrow on charges of murder and kidnapping during his war against a brutal Maoist insurgency.

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori must be extradited to Peru to face trial on corruption and human rights charges, Chile’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday in a decision that cannot be appealed.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake rose to at least 337 today, a day after the magnitude-7.9 quake rocked Peru’s coast, toppled buildings and shattered roads, officials said.

A powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook Peru’s coast near the capital, toppling buildings, setting off landslides and killing at least 337 people and injuring more than 1,300 others, Peru’s National Institute for Civil Defence said.

A powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook Peru’s coast near the capital, toppling buildings, setting off landslides and killing at least 71 people and injuring 680 others, Deputy Health Minister Jose Calderon said today.

Actress Cameron Diaz appears to have committed a major fashion crime in Peru.

Peru’s President-elect Alan Garcia says voters have sent a clear message to Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez: Keep out.

AT 6ft 3in, former Peruvian president Alan Garcia strikes an imposing figure in his bid for re-election. But he also casts a long shadow of dark memories.

PERUVIANS were voting in a tight presidential contest yesterday that could put their Andean nation on a leftist track akin to Venezuela and Bolivia, giving them their first female leader or offer a former president a second chance.

A desperate message for help stuffed into a bottle helped save 88 South American refugees stranded at sea near Costa Rica, officials said today.

Daily life ground to a halt across Spain today as the grieving nation observed a period of solemn silence to honour the 198 people killed in the Madrid train massacre

US President George W Bush has made the first visit by an American head of state to Peru three days after a car bombing near the US Embassy killed nine people.

Exploding rockets and popping fireworks streaked through the Lima sky as Peruvians rang in the New Year - two days after a firecracker sparked the country’s deadliest fire on record.

Alejandro Toledo, a shoeshine boy who rose from poverty to become a World Bank economist, defeated controversial ex-president Alan Garcia in the presidential election in Peru’s cleanest election in years.

Alejandro Toledo, an economist with native Indian roots, finished first in Peru’s presidential election yesterday but fell short of a majority and will face a runoff, according to exit polls.